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Flickr/nuena Burmese cats, like Bombay cats, have two varieties: British (or European) Burmese, and American Burmese, although many cat registries recognize no distinction. Both breeds are small-to-medium-sized cats that have sturdy bodies, round heads, large eyes, full cheeks, a pressed-in face, and an evenly colored coat of short hair. The British variety tend to have more triangular faces than their American counterparts. Burmese are often noted to be heavier than they look, and have been described as "bricks wrapped in silk." The first Burmese cats on record were written about in 14th–18th-century Siam as one of the three types of cat in the country. (Soldiers probably brought ...

Flickr/fabiogis50 Birmans are beautiful cats, so round and evenly colored that they often resemble stuffed animals. They have long silky, thin hair which rarely mats; a golden, pale body with dark points; and blue eyes. Despite its coat's similarities to the Siamese, the Birman's body is much stockier and larger. One of the most distinctive traits of Birmans is that they have completely white paws, no matter what the color of their forelimbs. Birmans most likely originated in Burma (they appear in Burmese myths), but no one can be sure as to their true origin. The first modern appearance of a Birman was during World War I, when a pair of the cats were shipped from Burma to France, thus ...